In developing the repertoire of games for Multibowl, I played about 1000 games made from 1975 through to about 2000. I found a few gems that are worth playing in their own right, and which I think aren’t all that well known. Of course you’ve played W...
Sportsfriends is something like a time capsule of the local multiplayer games that my friends and I were making and playing in and around New York in 2010-2012. It contains four games: Hokra by Ramiro Corbetta, Barabariball by Noah Sasso, and Johann...
MULTIBOWL is a two-player challenge of skill and knowledge, across exciting moments in over 300 historical games across dozens of hardware platforms. It’s the first videogame collage, maybe.
Bennett Foddy's Speed Chess is the fastest game of chess in the world. Designed for sixteen players to play simultaneously, it lets players move their piece instantly, without waiting for their turn. They can change which piece they control at will....
A number of my favourite game developers, like Adam Saltsman and Tim Rogers and Phil Fish, missed out on the whole Amiga oeuvre because the system was unpopular in the United States. To me this is a pity – because the popularity of the Amiga was low ...
In 2010 I released a redesigned version of QWOP for smartphones. I guess it’s ok because Stott Stoddard, the designer of Robot Unicorn Attack, played it so much he wore down indentations in his iPad screen.
Amazingly, it still works fine in 2026. Kn...